Arabs as portrayed in the Israeli Hebrew literature since the Second World War

Abstract

Within the fifty years of the development of the Arab theme in Israeli literature, a gradual and continuous aloofness from the Arabs and from the Arab way of life may be discerned. (b) In place of a description of the Arab way of life the Arabs are now perceived as ideas. (c) Three basic approaches to the Arabs were discussed: The Romantic-Exotic approach The Problematic approach The Existential-Historiosophic approach (d) The perception of the Arabs as an existential condition becomes a reality in the light of Jewish relationship towards the Arab states. The Arabs have become a threat to Jewish existence in the region, and to the very political existence of the State of Israel.